I was trying an experiment. Posting only good liberty related news and leaving the bad stuff up to everyone else. Well, I’ve given up. There’s just too much crap going on to ignore. I’ll still post good news, but I’m going to be posting the bad as well, and after yesterday’s ruling in the Washington State Governor’s Election I’m in a bit of a foul mood.

I see why the judge ruled as he did, he took the easy path and rested his decision on Washington’s totally impossible standards for contesting illegal ballots — essentially you have to PROVE who the illegal ballot voted for, which is not possible in a system that keeps every vote private (at least until we are all using electronic voting machines). State law doesn’t allow for cases where the margin of error was bigger than the margin of victory (by more than 10 times), but it should.

One way to express our outrage at this is to write to our State Legiscritters and demand they change the election laws in this state, another is to try to get the Feds (ha!) involved since election workers did admit to committing fraud. We can also send a message to Olympia by gathering enough signatures to get Initiative-912 the no-new-gas-tax initiative on the ballot in November. They need over 200,000 signatures by July 8th so they need as much help as they can get.